Tuesday, July 13, 2010

A Non-Violent Society

Googling "Non-Violent Society" showed over 60,000 results. Why does a "Non-Violent Society" matter?
Yesterday, when I walked to the bus station of a small town, wonderfully located at the Lake of Zurich, I witnessed unprecedented verbal violence. Two young teenagers on their bikes, coming from a near-by school, shouted at a man death-threatening words of unbelievable violence.
At that instant the bare violence of the Küsnacht Teenager attacks in Munich, during their school trip, came again to my mind.
What are we doing wrong in our society? Where do we fail? Did Stanley Kubrick ("A Clockwork Orange") and Quentin Tarantino anticipate an era of violence, with young adolescents exposed to media, war games and the dark sides of the Internet, a young generation socially isolated and marginalized, neither cared of, nor loved, confronted with voyeurisme, war & sexual pornography and bald violence? An aseptic society which has lost its capability to distinguish between real and virtual violence, war and terrorism?
Refering to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung's last folio edition, entitled "Grandios Gescheitert" (grandiose failure), is our modern industrialized society disoriented and condemned to fail?
Where are the parents? What happened to the family? Who is taking care of the children? For Switzerland, divorces over the last 5 years averaged to a rate of 50%.
Again we as adults have to take the responsibility. We decided to have children. Children are not just an act of love and birth. If we want to have children, we have to raise and take care of them, act as responsible adults, as ideals, as socially and environmentally responsible persons, who take the responsibility at all points that relate to our children, their education and their future.

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